Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
7.80 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
arabe
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Not Available
  
Origin
512 CE
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available